帆 (fān): sail, to gallop
帆 (fān) is a Chinese character meaning “sail.” Classified as HSK Level 6 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 巾 (semantic) and 凡 (phonetic). It ranks #2376 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 帆 cloth. Its radical form 巾 (cloth) appears in many related characters such as 师 (shī, teacher), 帮 (bāng, to help), 常 (cháng, always).
Definitions
- sail
- to gallop
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
HSK Vocabulary with 帆
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 帆船noun | fān chuán | sailboat |
| 扬帆verb | yáng fān | to set sail |
| 帆布noun | fān bù | canvas |
| 帆板noun | fān bǎn | sailboard |
| 风帆noun | fēng fān | sail |
| 船帆noun | chuán fān | sail |
| 见风使帆 | jiàn fēng shǐ fān | lit. see the wind and set your sails (idiom) |
| 扬帆远航 | yáng fān yuǎn háng | to set sail on a voyage to a distant place |
| 张春帆 | zhāng chūn fān | Zhang Chunfan (-1935), late Qing novelist, author of The Nine-tailed Turtle 九尾龜|九尾龟 |
| 力帆 | lì fān | Lifan Group (auto manufacturer in Chongqing) |
| 船帆座proper-noun | chuán fān zuò | Vela (constellation) |
| 展帆 | zhǎn fān | to unfurl (a sail) |
| 转帆 | zhuǎn fān | to tack (of sailing ship) |
| 满帆 | mǎn fān | under full sail |
| 帆布鞋noun | fān bù xié | canvas shoes |
帆 appears in 21 compound words: 29 as the first character, 52 as the last, and 19 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 帆 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (2)
Showing 1 of 2 idioms containing 帆.
Example Sentences
学习帆字需要反复练习，才能写得工整。
xué xí fān zì xū yāo fǎn fù liàn xí , cái néng xiě dé gōng zhěng .
Mastering the character "帆" requires repeated practice to write it neatly.
...的“技术工匠”——记火箭军某部工程师王江帆
. . . de jì shù gōng jiàng — — jì huǒ jiàn jūn mǒu bù gōng chéng shī wáng jiāng fān
...The "Technical Craftsman" — A Profile of Wang Jiangfan, an Engineer with a Rocket Force Unit
字节跳动出售旗下游戏公司沐瞳 张云帆续任CEO
zì jié tiào dòng chū shòu qí xià yóu xì gōng sī mù 瞳 zhāng yún fān xù rèn C E O
ByteDance Sells Its Gaming Subsidiary Mooton; Zhang Yunfan to Remain CEO
字节超60亿美元出售沐瞳科技 张云帆:本人将继续担任沐瞳CEO
zì jié chāo 6 0 yì měi yuán chū shòu mù 瞳 kē jì zhāng yún fān : běn rén jiāng jì xù dān rèn mù 瞳 C E O
ByteDance Sells Mooton Technology for Over $6 Billion; Zhang Yunfan: I Will Continue to Serve as Mooton’s CEO
住杜拜帆船酒店亲遇导弹碎片袭击 中国母女砸36万...
zhù dù bài fān chuán jiǔ diàn qīn yù dǎo dàn suì piàn xí jī zhōng guó mǔ nǚ zá 3 6 wàn . . .
Staying at Burj Al Arab Hotel in Dubai, the Chinese mother and daughter smashed 360,000 yuan...
ASML秀新技术 帆宣满手单跻身大赢家
A S M L xiù xīn jì shù fān xuān mǎn shǒu dān 跻 shēn dà yíng jiā
ASML showed new technology and became a big winner
汤姆正在教我怎么开帆船。
Tāngmǔ zhèngzài jiāo wǒ zěnme kāi fānchuán.
Tom is teaching me to how to sail.
我们路上一帆风顺，直到遇上暴风雪。
Wǒmen lùshang yī fān fēng shùn, zhídào yùshàng bàofēngxuě.
We made good time until we ran into a blizzard.
我好久没坐帆船了。
Wǒ hǎojiǔ méi zuò fānchuán le.
I haven't been sailing for years.
Character Family
Semantic Family — Characters sharing the 巾 (cloth) component
Frequently Asked Questions
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